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Every morning this week we're posting daily updates of what happened at E3 overnight, to bring you up to speed with what you missed. Here are the links for Monday and Tuesday.The magic was never going to last, but at least Nintendo let us down gently. The intoxicating flavour of Sony's sacred-cow barbecue was washed away by the sheer weirdness of Nintendo's presentation, introducing its senior team as custom-made muppets who then transformed into the cast of Star Fox Zero.
This was probably the perfect introduction to a lineup that by turns amazing and underwhelming: Miyamoto's design stories were the perfect background for Super Mario Maker, but most of the show was about turning fan-favourite IP in new and weird directions: an Animal Crossing amiibo game, a co-op Zelda for 3DS and a Samus-free Metroid were greeted with some dismay, although few could resist the gameplay or indeed the name of Mario & Luigi Paper Jam. Combining amiibo and Skylanders might be crossing the streams a bit too.
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